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never be royals
Aug. 11th, 2020 05:40 pmFrom the question-a-day meme?
August 11: Everyone always thinks they’d be royalty or a knight if they were born in Medieval times, but let’s be honest, you probably wouldn’t be. So, what kind of person do you think you’d be if you were born in medieval times?
I don't think that I'd have been royalty or a knight, because I've actually read some history.
In any case, my ancestors immigrated to the United States from Sweden and Scotland at various points in the 19th century in order (I presume) to escape being landless, impoverished, exploited peasants. Presumably that's what I would have been too, had I been born much before about 1920.
(Assuming I didn't die in childhood. But I probably would have because lots of children did, and in particular, lots of children with chronic bronchitis and pneumonia did, because no antibiotics. So in fact if I'd been born much before 1950, I probably wouldn't have lived. I was born in 1969, so I feel like I had a fairly narrow escape. Medieval!me isn't really a possibility.)
August 11: Everyone always thinks they’d be royalty or a knight if they were born in Medieval times, but let’s be honest, you probably wouldn’t be. So, what kind of person do you think you’d be if you were born in medieval times?
I don't think that I'd have been royalty or a knight, because I've actually read some history.
In any case, my ancestors immigrated to the United States from Sweden and Scotland at various points in the 19th century in order (I presume) to escape being landless, impoverished, exploited peasants. Presumably that's what I would have been too, had I been born much before about 1920.
(Assuming I didn't die in childhood. But I probably would have because lots of children did, and in particular, lots of children with chronic bronchitis and pneumonia did, because no antibiotics. So in fact if I'd been born much before 1950, I probably wouldn't have lived. I was born in 1969, so I feel like I had a fairly narrow escape. Medieval!me isn't really a possibility.)
